RESUME
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Ewa Matyja
Born 1985, Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Solo Exhibition, Alchemik Studio, Poznan, Poland
2017/18 Solo Exhibition, AirHair Studio, Poznan, Poland
2016 Solo Exhibition, Drukarnia Sklad Chleba i Wina, Poznan, Poland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Disrupting the Stillness, Online Exhibition, Lahme x TheVisionaryProject
2019 Control + Shift, Shanghai, China
2018/19 Barsky Gallery, New Jersey, USA
2018/19 Teutsch Gallery, Warsaw Poland
2019 Minute16, Berlin, Germany
2019 Art Number 23, London, UK
2018 Stacja Design, Wroclaw, Poland
2018 Young Art Auction, Sopot’s Auction House, Warsaw, Poland
2018 New Avant-garde, post competition exhibition, Katowice, Poland
2018 Young Art Auction, Pragaleria, Warsaw, Poland
2017 COMEL, post competition exhibition, Latina, Italy
ART FAIRS & FESTIVALS
2019 The Other Art. Fair, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2019 The Other Art. Fair, London, UK
2018 The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2018 AFF Art Fresh Festival, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Christmas Art Fair, Officyna Art & Design, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Warsaw International Art Fair, Warsaw, Poland
2017 Art Fair for Independent Artists, Poznan, Poland
2016 Art & Design, Wolny Targ, Poznan, Poland
2016 Grand Bazar Fair, Jablkowski’s Brothers House, Warsaw, Poland
GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Yudian Gallery, 2022
James Baird Gallery (Artsy), 2021
Artwork SG, 2021
Saatchi Art, 2018
Middle Mist, 2022
PUBLICATIONS
„Le Mille” Magazine, 2021
„The Hut Magazine”, 2021
The High Mid Low Blogpost, 2020
SOL, 2020
Postscriptum Magazine, 2021
Visionery Project, 2021
„You wanted A List”, 2020
Share Human Creativity, 2020
Pracownia Dziewczyn Podcast, 2021
COLLABORATIONS:
Behspoke, 2021
DOTCH, 2022
Spacey Studios, 2021
AWARDS
2018 II Contemporary Art Competition, New Avant-garde, Katowice, Poland
2018 Finalist of Fusion Art 2nd Annual Colors Competition, Online Gallery
2018 Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Abstract Art Exhibition,
Special Merit Category Award
2018 Light Space & Time, Online Art Gallery, Abstract Art Exhibition,
8th place (out of 952 entries)
2017 COMEL Contemporary Art Prize, selected as one of the top 14 finalist, Latina, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2019 Untitled Space Artist Residency, Shanghai, China (September 2019)
2019 Self-directed Artist Residency, Bangkok, Thailand (August 2019)
2019 Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada (July 2019)
EDUCATION
2015 Graphic Design, FETAC Level 5, Dublin Institute of Design, Ireland
2013 BA (Hons) Business Studies 2:1, Dublin Business School, Ireland
Biography
Ewa Matyja was born in 1985 in Poland. At the age of 20 she started to travel and she spend 15 years living between Europe, America and Asia. She worked most of her life in sales and fashion to drop corporate lifestyle in 2016 and dedicated fully to art and focus on becoming full time artist
She has exhibited in solo exhibitions at Drukarnia Sklad Chleba i Wina, AirHair Studio or Alchemik Studio in Poznan, Poland.
Matyja also has been included in various important group exhibitions including COMEL in Italy, New Avant-garde, Auction Houses or Stacja Design in various cities in Poland, The Other Art Fair in New York City and London, Minute16 in Berlin and several Online Exhibitions.
She has been actively involved in art fairs and festivals in Poland, such as Art Fresh Festival, Officyna Art & Design Fair and The Other Art Fair presented by SaatchiArt in London and New York City.
In 2019 Matyja moved to Bali, Indonesia where she lives now.
Artist Statement
As a self-taught artist I paint to challange myself. The amount of creativity that was storaged inside me for years, creates unexpected pieces that are abstract visualisation of all my previous expeirences. As an artist I create work that reflects emotions and chaos in life that we are living. I capture movement and life. To me art is ongoing explotration and journey of discovery. It is a learning proces that involves experimenting and making mistakes to achieve powerfull paintings. In every piece I create I try to show beauty in imperfction.
My main source of inspirations are nature, architecture, people, culture and emotions that those elements have impact on me.
I experiment mixing traditional materials like acrylic paint, charcoal, pastels, ink with local art supplies, elements of nature to create three dimension effect in my work. I am fascinated by textures and structures that we can find on every corner in the most unexpected corners of our surrounding.
My proces is dynamic and involves working intuitively on several pieces at the time to create dialogue between them, moving from one to another allows me develop the ideas and pushing the boundries. This is no going back or correcting proces.